The PSD/Algarve has decided to offer trips to the European Parliament in Brussels to the five people who have collected the most signatures for the petition “New Hospital Central do Algarve Now”, according to a post published on social media by the district chairman of the party. .
“The aim is to reward the people who are most committed to this cause”Regional Social Democratic leader Cristóvão Norte told Lusa news agency, adding that the petition “already has more than 1,000 signatures”.
According to Cristóvão Norte’s post published on social media on Tuesday, “to the five people who collect the most signatures […] between 28 and 30 November, a trip is offered, including accommodation, to visit the European Parliament in Brussels”.
The PSD/Algarve aims to have 7,500 signatures by the end of the year, the number needed for the construction of the new Algarve Central Hospital, which will be discussed in a debate in the Assembly of the Republic.
Cristóvão Norte assured that “people are in favor” of this construction, but the matter has been “long promised and long delayed”important to carry out such actions.
According to the text of the petition addressed to the Prime Minister, António Costa, “the completion of a new Algarve Central Hospital is an undisputed necessity for the region”.
As stated in the petition, since 2003, that hospital has been considered “a basic infrastructure” per “all governments, without exception, parties, deputies, mayors, orders, unions, etc.”.
The text recalls that in 2005 the incumbent government commissioned a survey in which the Hospital Central do Algarve came in second in the “prioritising the construction of new hospitals”.
However, the construction of the infrastructure never progressed, “there is no known decision-making procedure to make it a reality”.
“This delay is very harmful to the interests of the region and the Algarve, but also of the country”underlines the petition.
The project for a new hospital in the Algarve dates back to 2002, when the then Minister of Health, Luís Filipe Pereira (PSD), set up, among other things, an interdepartmental group to launch public-private partnerships, namely to install a new hospital unit in Parque das Cidades, between Faro and Loulé.
The following year, in 2003, the land for construction was approved, in 2007 the assistance profile and dimensions were approved and in 2008 the then Prime Minister, José Sócrates (PS), even laid the foundation stone of the hospital, which was completed in 2013. would be.
Source: DN
